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Noah Cohan

@noahcohan.bsky.social

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Sports Studies Scholar. St. Louisan. Seattle ex-pat. "How the Helmet Conquered Football: The Story of an American Icon" coming 2027 from the Power Plays series at OU Press. https://noahcohan.com/

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when this kind of thing would have been unthinkable? How many other unthinkable things will become the new norm.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Noah Cohan @noahcohan.bsky.social · 2d

"The irony of all this, in this particular instance, is that we never needed random computer-generated trash to scavenge and build meaning out of. We already had Rays-Angels games to do that. Surviving that, finding meaning in it and sharing it with each other, is the whole point of baseball."

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Damon Agnos @damonagnos.bsky.social · 3d

My time travel novel in which Abraham Lincoln joins the Seattle Mariners bullpen and develops a deep friendship with a fellow middle reliever is called Lincoln and Bazardo

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 5d

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 5d

Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context

"Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 5d

In the light of day, the insistence on taking millions of fans into the yawning abyss of hell that is a 15-inning game seems pretty difficult to justify. What were the Mariners thinking?

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 5d

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 5d

ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
AMIN: yes [World engulfed by flames]
AMIN: oh god yes

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 5d

Mariners going to extras.

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Rock Me Amadeus Ex Machina @mikeall.bsky.social · 8d

Dan Wilson: Checkers Grandmaster

Rock Me Amadeus Ex Machina @mikeall.bsky.social · 8d

If you're playing checkers when the other guy is playing chess you better be history's greatest goddamn checkers player

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Noah Cohan @noahcohan.bsky.social · 5d

#mariners

a woman is screaming at a man in a suit while he looks on .

ALT: a woman is screaming at a man in a suit while he looks on .

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Noah Cohan @noahcohan.bsky.social · 6d

Brought to you by the IBM Selectric II Electric Typewriter!

Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 6d

I'm excited for a Toronto WNBA team, but I still can't get over this branding. Very regional bus company circa 1980. Travel from Toronto to Buffalo in style. Includes smoking “section” and more than one teenage runaway.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 7d

The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."